Today's Top Tune

Ambassador of her family’s Mexican culture, Estevie is on the front lines when it comes to merging cumbia with Mexican regional music. A first-generation American raised in Beaumont, CA, Estevie brings the head on the sound of ‘miami,’ the latest output from Ricky Reed ’s label Nice Life Recording Company.

Afro-Peruvian soundsystem Novalima celebrate their 20th anniversary with a tour that kicks off in Los Angeles this Thursday, and they have released a brand new track that will get your hips swaying and feet dancing. “El Tiempo,” which translates from Spanish to “time” or “the weather,” features the voice of Brazilian cellist and singer/songwriter Dom La Nena , who sings in Spanish.

West Coast rockers Sonny and the Sunsets display their garage vintage-style through a forthcoming album, Self Awareness Through Macrame, named after a course his mother developed to teach at Bolinas Community Center back in the ‘70s that no one signed up for. The new album drops in late August and the band is slated to support WITCH (We Intend To Create Havoc) on the West Coast leg of their tour. So if you are going to that show, be sure to get there early to catch “Pink Cake” live.

Have you met Brazilian artist dadá Joãozinho yet? Paying homage to samba and bossa styles, Joãozinho sets modern production elements to his work by sampling the band he assembled, tearing it up, then chopping and flipping the arrangements. It’s heaven. And so is the song “Ô Lulu.”

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Chris Pierce is a gentle giant who makes powerful music that lifts the unsung to rise together — much like his hero, Neil Young, who handpicked Pierce to open on his July tour. Showcasing Pierce’s thoughtful songwriting, “Meet Me at the Bottom” helps heal divisiveness to a place of common ground.

It’s the middle of the week, and you may find yourself needing a soothing balm like “A day in the water’ by Christine and the Queens . When asked about the song, Chris shares: “The song is about that feeling of being deep in the water when you feel the world cannot touch you anymore. It’s behind the glass of your own melancholia, but in that deep dive of vulnerability hopefully the light arrives. The light of honesty.”

KCRW DJs are hyped on Silver, the forthcoming sophomore studio album from Say She She dropping late September. Their stellar harmonies always have us swooning, and that’s certainly the case for Silver’s gorgeous “Astral Plane,” out today.

Los Angeles native Joey Dosik considers himself The Nostalgiac, a realization he had on the way to the studio one day while wearing a Magic Johnson shirt he’s had since 1990, and it’s a fitting title for his new album. Dosik took that spirit and dotted his recording with found sounds, voice memos, and childhood VHS audio. Featuring a gamut of LA’s stellar session musicians, “Beat The Same” is an uplifting R&B powerhouse.

Trippy electronic LA trio Supreme Beings of Leisure are ready to light up your summer with a Madonna-esque earworm called “My Ibiza,” remixed by Dave Aude.

An electronic pioneer and master of playful fantasy, Mort Garson is best known for his 1976 cult classic Mother Earth's Plantasia , which lay dormant for years until its 2019 reissue. Pushing the boundaries of whimsy, Garson created an album to play to plants. And now, a recently unearthed single from a 1970 National Geographic Special “Zoos of the World” has risen. Stunningly cinematic, take a sonic trip into the mind of Mort Garson on what would have been his 99th birthday.